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Sunday's game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Washington Nationals was briefly interrupted by protesters urging commissioner Bud Selig to move the 2011 All-Star Game from Phoenix because of Arizona's new immigration legislation.

Just a few years ago, when the economy was booming, the area around the Home Depot on Thomas Road and 36th Street in east Phoenix was packed with a couple of hundred men congregating on sidewalks and street corners soliciting work as day laborers.

Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona says a recent court ruling blocking most of the controversial sections of Arizona's new immigration law was wrong and that possible tweaks to the law by state legislators likely won't be enough to ease the court's concerns.